My brother writes about my dad’s death:
I had the best dad in the whole world. He taught me everything I know as an adult about respect and doing what’s right. I will miss him dearly.

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Chicago Dyke at the Mighty Corrente Building:
I’m at the Center for American Progress, listening to Sid Blumenthal and Glenn Greenwald talk about the Imperial Presidency, and one thing is important enough for me to want to live blog. Sid says that Wilkerson, Powell’s old chief of staff, believes that the correct number of victims in [...]

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Lance Mannion with a great piece on Rush Limbaugh:
Everything Rush Limbaugh says means the same thing.
The actual words he uses are irrelevent. He might as well be talking gibberish (Yeah, I know.) or in code. Whatever he says needs to be translated and is as easy to translate as pig-latin.
No matter what he [...]

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While the GOP keeps reminding voters about their tax cuts, we can remind them of this:
45.8% of the benefits from a reduction in capital gains and dividends went to people with incomes over $1 million. There were 284,000 taxpayers in this income group. This is .19% of all taxpayers.
An additional 10.8% of the [...]

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Oh, look. A Boeing subsidiary does all the travel planning for CIA rendition flights. Isn’t that nice?

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An Illinois congressman, up for reelection from the state’s 11th district, seems to have quite a few conflicts of interest. Oh, and in case you didn’t guess, he’s a Republican:
… He’s already raised questions about whether he has a conflict of interest because he’s refused to step down from the House of Representative’s influential Subcommittee [...]

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I can’t believe a fundie church would dream of breaking the election laws. “Render to Caesar,” and all that…
A nonprofit group has filed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the role that two churches may have played in the re-election campaign of Kansas’ attorney general.
The complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics [...]

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Crowded House:

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Eric Alterman:
Barron’s methodology may be screwed, but the point holds. This is a democracy of dollars, not votes. And as Jackie Calmes writes in the WSJ today, here ($), drug companies are pouring millions of dollars into close midterm races, giving some Republicans a financial edge out of fear of what a Democratic Congress could [...]

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It’s all about the personal responsibility. Oddly enough, when it comes to a Republican politician, it’s always someone else’s responsibility. Go read it all. Who do you believe?
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman who says she was assaulted and propositioned by a Republican congressman running for Nevada governor said Wednesday she was threatened, pressured - [...]

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Kos and I went to Value City to buy socks ($1.99) and gloves ($4.99) because it’s gotten so cold. We stopped afterward at the neighborhood diner for dinner.
“I’ll have a veggie burger with bacon,” she said, giving her usual order to the tired-looking waitress.
“You just love ordering that,” I said. “You want to watch their [...]

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ABC News adds mind-reading to their list of useful news skills:
ABC News had no problem documenting ads, currently airing in campaign across the country, attacking Democrats, including one from the Republican National Committee about Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. In it, an actress playing a ditzy blonde bimbo says: “I met Harold at [...]

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About time.

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I’m guessing it’s a lot worse than we even think:
Two retired senior Army generals, who served in Iraq and previously voted Republican, are now openly endorsing a Democratic takeover of Congress. The generals, and an active-duty senior military official, told Salon in separate interviews that they believe a Democratic victory will help reverse course [...]

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Quite an interview with the former Bush White House chef:
But criticism of Mr. Scheib followed him. Almost a year after he left the White House, an unnamed East Wing official told The Wall Street Journal that the chef had been fired because he showed “a level of arrogance” in preparing scallops for the first family [...]

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If you’re a guy and you’re trying to have a baby, you might want to ditch the cell phone.

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Great day for New Jerseyans:
HELD: Denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial relationship to a legitimate governmental purpose. The Court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph 1 of the New Jersey Constitution, committed samesex couples must be [...]

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This is what you’d expect from someone in a district representing Big Pharma, among others. So this would be a good time to go give some money to Democrat Patrick Murphy, the Iraq war vet against him:
Bucks County Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick has raised more than $200,000 in campaign contributions from political action committees linked to [...]

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Here’s a handy way to keep track of everyone Curt Weldon blames for his current situation. (Hint: One name - his - is conspicuously absent from that list.)

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Why do archeologists hate the baby Jesus?
Caral made headlines in 2001 when researchers carbon-dated material from the city back to 2627 B.C. It is a must-see for archaeology enthusiasts.

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Tex Williams with the song later covered by Ry Cooder Commander Cody:

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Shorter Mark Halperin: Whoever yells at us the loudest is right, and we’re really sorry for whatever you say we did.

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Men with cramps.

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For a minute there, the earth shifted on its axis when Billmon was optimistic last week. Now we’re back to normal:
Now it’s the Rovians who potentially are standing in the oppressor man’s shoes. Would they really have the stones to try to steal an entire congressional majority, wholesale instead of retail? I guess that would [...]

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You’re thinking about it right now, aren’t you?
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (UPI) — Researchers at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University say most men are always thinking of sex.
A study released Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists found 54 percent of men and [...]

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Let’s see what Jeb does with this:
MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a Florida law that prohibits exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place, finding there was no evidence that such surveys were disruptive or threatened access to voting.
U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck said the law was unconstitutional [...]

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“In the past, Democrats and other critics of the war who talked about benchmarks and timetables were labeled as defeatists, defeatocrats or people who wanted to cut and run. So why shouldn’t American people conclude that this is nothing from you other than semantic, rhetorical games and all politics two weeks before an election?”
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David Horsey:

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More good economic news:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of existing home sales fell for the sixth straight month in September, hitting a 6.18 million-unit annual rate, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday that was a sharper drop than economists expected.
Year over year, U.S. home prices fell 2.2 percent to [...]

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